The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16

He claims that Friday hanging was unjust,
unchristian and brutalzng. The men
were right. as the real anarchists were the
officials of monopolies and capitalists.
SIEGFR1ED SELLER, a Bridgeport Comm
business man and recognized leader of So
clalsm in that city, closed his store Friday
noon and pasted this notice, bordered in
black, on the front door: CLOSED in honor
of the noble martyrs of free speech, haunted
| to death by the cannibals of the press and
and pulpit" Portraits of the condemned
men were also shown in the front window
in black.
The death of Captain Eads was a severe
blow to the Tehuantepec ship railway enter
prise, but the men interested in IL have no
notion of throwing up the sponge. COM
pany will he organized under the laws of
the state of New York, with ex-senator
Window as president Congress will not be
asked for a subsidy, the appeal for money
being made dirictly to private capitalists
upon the business merits of the undertaking.
THE bark Union" from Pernambuco,
arrived at New York Friday, bringing six
shipwrecked sailors of the bark " Augusta "
of Stockholm, which foundered in hurri-
cane October 18th, after the captain, mate
and one sailor had been washed overheard
and lost. The men were picked up by the
" Union y from small boat. Their suffer
ings had been great and they were just
about drawing lots to determine which
should be killed to be eaten by the others
when help arrived. Five men whe left the
Augusta in another boat are supposed to
be lost.
THE London Times, while admitting that
the iuries, judges and the governor of Hi
nois showed commendable tirmness, says
that it cannot altogether praise the CELEBRITY
or certainty of punishment in America.
"a feature that will specially strike En-
glishmen is the sternness of Americans in
REFRESHING offences against law and order
/ M IN nd hi
| friends whether there is anything so es-
sentially incompatible with the liberty of
subjects in the methods, in many respects
milder, which are the objects of their We
hement denunciation."
THE evening previous to the execution of
the Chicago anarchists two hundred fifty
Germans employed in the gingham mills at
Adams, Mass, paraded the streets, waving
red flags and making considerable disturb
ance. The next morning the American flag
was hung at half-mast from the roof of a
| German resort. a number of American,
French and Irish citizens threatened to de-
molish the building unless the flag was re-
moved. The chairman of the selectmen no.
titled the proprietor to take down the flag
or be responsible for the consequences. A
telegram says that the flag was removed.
JESSE PoMERoY, the "boy murderer"
made another attempt to escape from the
state prison Thursday. Being in solitary
confinement, he is given books and small
tools with which to occupy his time, and it
] now appears that from a small piece of steel
he managed to make a saw, with which he
succeeded in cutting through some of the bars
of his cell. He had also, it is said, lighted
the gas in his cell and then threw his blanket
! over it. The result was an explosion that
deprived Pomeroy of his eye-sight, ratified
the plastering around his head and caused
the officers to rush to the spot, revolvers in
hand.
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Chicago last Friday upon August Spies,
| Adolph Fischer, George Engel and Albert
! r. Parsons, found guilty in August 1885, of
| being accessory to the murder of seven
policemen at an anarchist meeting in Hay
market square the 4th day of May preceding.
The governor of Illinois had committed the
sentences of Samuel Fielder and Michael
Schwab to Imprisonment for life and Louis
Lingg, the maker of the bomb which slew
began and his comrades, had persisted by
his own act. using bomb of a simpler de-
scription. There were $50 persons in Jail
to witness the executions. The four men
betrayed little concern for their fate, but
INDUCED in much bravado, singing the
Marseillaise, hurrahing for anarchy and
declaring that their last silence would be
more eloquent than speech. The drop fell
at II: 80. Engel died without a struggle,
but the others by strangling. The bodies
were delivered to their friends and subse-
quently were viewed by hundreds. There
/ was threatening Idlk DN anarchists Ill
| Chicago, but no disturbance took place.
Anarchists in other cities held indignation
meetings. Governor Ogesby and others
connected with the case continue to receive
threatening letters.
THE funeral of the anarchists was held
| Sunday. 1t was conducted in a quiet and
orderly manner. The entire squad of the
central detail police was on duty at the diff
ferent points along the line of march. The
procession was led by bands, socialist So
cieties and labor unions. The next feature
was the turnout of the people who followed
after the hearses consisting of men, women,
! boys and girls, all on foot, babies in arms
and bands of music. In ranks of four to
eight deep they tramped side by side, and
not word was uttered by those in the
ranks or those on the corners. After the
people on foot came fifty carriages over
| loaded with people of all ages and sects.
The line of vehicles kept on in Despalines
street squarely over the spot where the
bomb fell the night of the riot. The re-
mains were thus escorted TO the Wisconsin
Central depot and conveyed by special
| trains to Wadheim cemetery. Forty car
loads of people accompanied them. Here
the collins We're placed upon a platform
erected in front of the receiving-vault and
1000 spectators gathered around Captain
Black stepped to the front and all hats We're
taken OFF. A deep silence fell upon the
throng and the counsel spoke at length. He
told his hearers they had come to do honor
to soldiers and martyrs to truth. The dead
had lost their lives in the service and were
numbered with those that in all history had
died for the same cause. Black ended his
address by reading an anonymous poem
recitng the virtues of the deceased and
lauding anarchy. He was followed by Rob
ert Reitzel of Detroit, who spoke in German
L. j. Morgan, a local socialist leader of En-
glish birth, made a violent harangue. He
said there could be nothing but contempt
for a law which hung the anarchists. An